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2. Desarrollo económico y gasto público de las entidades federativas en México.
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Rodríguez-Benavides, Domingo and López-Herrera, Francisco
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PUBLIC finance , *ECONOMIC development , *PRODUCTION (Economic theory) , *ECONOMETRICS , *PUBLIC spending , *COINTEGRATION , *PER capita , *GROSS national product - Abstract
This paper shows evidence about the compliance of the Wagner's Law at the level of the Mexican states during the period 1980-2007. This law sets that the growth of public spending is explained as a result of increased economic activity. To test compliance with the law, this study use the specification proposed by Peacock and Wiseman (1961), Musgrave (1969), and Goffman and Mahar (1971), which sets that public spending and output variables are related in their levels. The bulk of empirical research on the fulfillment of the law at the global level has been conducted investigating whether Wagner's Law is fulfilled in the country level, with few studies on its fulfillment at the level of states, provinces or regions into a country. By means of econometric methods of panel data analysis, the whole set of the states of the Mexican Republic is studied, so as three subgroups classified according to their GDP per capita. The results of the cointegration analysis suggest evidence in favor of compliance with the Wagner's Law in the study period and that compliance is a function of the level of development achieved by the states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
3. Análisis de la distribución territorial de proyectos del mecanismo para un desarrollo limpio.
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Cruz Ramos, Ariel, Flores Delgado, Alfredo, Ibarra-Yúnez, Alejandro, and Zamorano Cervantes, Homar
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CLEAN development mechanism (Emission control) , *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation , *ECONOMIC development , *FOREIGN investments ,UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 December 11 - Abstract
This investigation classifies Mexican states according to their strength for attracting clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, as a means to promote economic development from donating Annex I countries of the Kyoto Protocol. We calculated that 46.5 per cent of all cdm projects are concentrated in the states of Jalisco, Coahuila, Puebla, Durango and Veracruz. The study classifies the 32 Mexican states using cluster analysis, based on three dimensions: potential to achieve gas reductions, institutional capacities to tackle the environment; and the general investment climate. The technique creates five clusters where the key variable responds to greenhouse gas reduction projects. Findings have implications both for cdm policies, their federal and state coordination, and also for invest- ment readiness by some states that demonstrate institutional capabilities, but where State-owned Pemex and CFE have shown low attraction of projects and shallow institutional commitment. The paper contributes to analyze the distribution of this type of projects at sub-national level, and their pulling and limiting forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
4. Emigración y compromiso político en México.
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Bravo, Jorge
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POLITICAL participation , *ECONOMIC development , *POLITICAL sociology ,EMIGRATION & immigration in Mexico ,SOCIAL conditions in Mexico - Abstract
This paper is an effort to ascertain whether there is a relationship between out-migration and the political engagement of those "left behind" in Mexico. We use 2006 CIDE-CSES survey data, which we complement with data from another national survey, to analyze the relationship between different manifestations of out-migration and several indicators of political engagement in Mexico. in particular, we identify the following channels through which out-migration may influence political engagement in Mexico: whether the respondent has close relatives in the Us, receives remittances, intends to migrate to the Us, or has ever worked in the Us. We then model several indicators of political engagement in Mexico (i.e, levels of political information, frequency of political talk within and without the household and electoral participation) as a function of these manifestations of out-migration, and a variety of suitable control variables. Our results suggest that, against the emerging conventional wisdom (according to which migration, and in particular remittances, by their sheer size, will solve many of Mexico's developmental challenges), emigration may in fact depress political engagement in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
5. Migración interna, capital humano y crecimiento económico en México, 1970-1990.
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INTERNAL migration , *HUMAN capital , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper measures the effect of the labor factor mobility on the convergence rate to the steady state of the economy. It is estimated that this rate in relatively low for the Mexican Federate States, compared with other countries like the United States and Japan. However, the ratios between the Mexican Federate States and the US are very similar during the 80’s. According to our estimations, the mobility of the labor factor, “pure” or adjusted by human capital, between the Mexican Federate States does not seem to have a significative effect on the convergence rate to the long run per capita real product; which means that the mobility of the labor force does not seem to smooth considerably the differences in per capita real product between the States. Our results have several implications for Regional Policy making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1997
6. Detección del poder de mercado en el sector manufacturero mexicano.
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MANUFACTURING industries , *MARKET power , *ECONOMIC development , *GOVERNMENT policy ,MEXICAN economic policy - Abstract
This paper detects market power at the two digit level in the Mexican manufacturing sector for the period 1970- 1991. Similarly to Hall (1988), the identification assumption is that total factor productivity growth is not procyclical. The test holds even for the case in which the market power coefficient is variable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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